Chapter 5: The Celestial Order
Two days later and he had the chance to visit the Celestial Order in town. He had dropped various hints that he might join the Order even though the Kaelith’s team members seems skeptical of that fact.
But finally, Esmera agreed to take him.
The Celestial Order was more of an organization than a religious order, far from a cult, and not quite a traditional church. Its members were primarily Arcanaer and Rifiners, known for using monster materials to produce a wide variety of items and techniques, as well as Artifacts.
No one really knew why they chose the name "Celestial Order." It stuck, and that was all that mattered.
The organization was just as influential as the bounty hunters association, which managed all the hunters across the Island kingdom.
The two factions worked closely, bounty hunters provided monster parts, and the Celestial Order paid handsomely in both coin and alchemical advancements. Bounty hunters gained wealth and materials, the Order gained rare resources for its creations.
The Order’s building dominated the town’s center, towering over even the Lord’s estate. It was massive, constructed from smooth, cool blue stones, and at its highest peak stood a carved insignia: a robed man holding a glass flask.
Kaedros wrinkled his nose. He could smell chemicals, and something else. Pain. Suffering. Likely from whatever captives were inside.
"Is the bearded man supposed to represent Arcaner?" he asked Esmera, who had offered to guide him to the Order earlier that morning. She probably assumed he wanted to join their ranks as a fellow bounty hunter.
"Yes," Esmera replied. "And the flask symbolizes Refiners."
She glanced at Kael, the boy with strange blue eyes and a grace about him that made him seem out of place in this world. He had recently expressed interest in joining the hunters, likely driven by a thirst for revenge after being kidnapped by a Dragon.
That would do that to a person.